Your body is not just your body.
It's teeming with microbes, and to illustrate their beauty in captivating detail, artist Rogan Brown turned to cutting out their forms in paper.
His work covers the wild diversity of organisms that call our body home, both friendly and belligerent.
Brown shared photos of three of his projects with Tech Insider, the best of which we've gathered here to show off his stunning layered-paper art.
Brown's "Cut Microbe" was made for the Eden Project's "Invisible You – The Human Microbiome exhibition" in Cornwall, UK in 2015.
Source: The Eden Project
The piece, showing a fictional microbe sliced in half, was inspired by infectious bacteria like E. coli and salmonella.
"Cut microbe" features the tentacle-like flagella and hair-like pili that bacteria use to move and communicate.
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